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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-24T23:36:43.000Z",
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  "textContent": "‘Apparently the Pentagon also doesn’t want you to hear from me anymore about threats to the editorial independence of Stars and Stripes. They fired me,’ ombudsman Jacqueline Smith wrote",
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